Genesis 31:24

Old Testament • 14 words with Strong's data

"And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad."

Word-by-Word Analysis

And

אֱלֹהִים

ʼĕlôhîym

H430

gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of...

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בּוֹא

bôwʼ

H935

to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)

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to

לָבָן

Lâbân

H3837

Laban, a Mesopotamian; also a place in the Desert

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the

אֲרַמִּי

ʼĂrammîy

H761

an Aramite or Aramaean

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in a

חֲלוֹם

chălôwm

H2472

a dream

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by

לַיִל

layil

H3915

properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e. night; figuratively, adversity

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and

אָמַר

ʼâmar

H559

to say (used with great latitude)

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unto him

לָקַח

lâqach

H3947

to take (in the widest variety of applications)

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שָׁמַר

shâmar

H8104

properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.

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that thou

דָבַר

dâbar

H1696

perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue

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not to

יַעֲקֹב

Yaʻăqôb

H3290

Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch

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אוֹ

ʼôw

H176

desire (and so probably in Proverbs 31:4); hence (by way of alternative) or, also if

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טוֹב

ṭôwb

H2896

good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good...

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or

רַע

raʻ

H7451

bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)

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Key Terms in This Verse

Syrian H761

אֲרַמִּי ʼĂrammîy

an Aramite or Aramaean

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bad H7451

רַע raʻ

bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)

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either H176

אוֹ ʼôw

desire (and so probably in Proverbs 31:4); hence (by way of alternative) or, also if

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Laban H3837

לָבָן Lâbân

Laban, a Mesopotamian; also a place in the Desert

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dream H2472

חֲלוֹם chălôwm

a dream

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heed H8104

שָׁמַר shâmar

properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.

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night H3915

לַיִל layil

properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e. night; figuratively, adversity

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Jacob H3290

יַעֲקֹב Yaʻăqôb

Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch

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speak H1696

דָבַר dâbar

perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue

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good H2896

טוֹב ṭôwb

good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goo...

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Cross References

Genesis 24:50 cross-reference

Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceedeth from the LORD: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.

Genesis 31:29 cross-reference

It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

Genesis 20:3 cross-reference

But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man’s wife.

Genesis 31:42 cross-reference

Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuke...

Numbers 24:13 cross-reference

If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the LORD, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; but what the LORD saith, that will I speak?

2 Samuel 13:22 cross-reference

And Absalom spake unto his brother Amnon neither good nor bad: for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.

Matthew 27:19 cross-reference

When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.

Hosea 12:12 cross-reference

And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.

Deuteronomy 26:5 cross-reference

And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and...

1 Kings 3:5 cross-reference

In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.

Numbers 22:26 cross-reference

And the angel of the LORD went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.

Numbers 22:20 cross-reference

And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If the men come to call thee, rise up, and go with them; but yet the word which I shall say unto thee, that shalt thou do.

Genesis 31:10 cross-reference

And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked, speckled, and grisled.

Genesis 41:1 cross-reference

And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.

Isaiah 37:29 cross-reference

Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

Matthew 1:20 cross-reference

But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceiv...

Genesis 28:5 cross-reference

And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.

Genesis 40:5 cross-reference

And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the pr...

Numbers 12:6 cross-reference

And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.

Job 33:25 cross-reference

His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s: he shall return to the days of his youth:

Matthew 2:12 cross-reference

And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.

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